S3 E22- Jeff Koehn - Part 2 - Surrender the Agenda - Sometimes the derailment puts you on the right track... Jeff shares how he got lost on his way as a young spiritual seeker and wound up getting to a much better place. Like the classic Heroes Journey.... in retrospect sometimes you realize your perceived enemy may have actually helped you shed old beliefs and moved you out of your comfort zone so you could fulfill your purpose. Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Check out Jeff Koehn's Art ...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 22
S3 E21 - Jeff Koehn - Torture, Frustration and Joy - can lead you to express. Jeff recalls reading that suppression leads to depression and so he expresses in art, music and comedy. Jeff shares some of the struggles with being adopted and dating through a hilarious comedy bit and some of what he's learned about how adoption trauma impacts sense of self and identity. Jeff' Koehn's paintings are in many galleries across the country. You can see by searching "Jeff Koehn Art" Check out Jeff Koehn's ...
Jun 17, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 21
S3 E20 - Jordan Doll - Supernatural - Born in Scotland into a family who was into midlands, UK folk magic. Jordon is a comedian, artist, writer and Ghost Storyteller. Is spirituality a post-traumatic gift? Listen to Jordan's podcast: https://www.werewolfradar.com/ Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Jordan Doll on instagram and all the things @razorlou: https://www.instagram.com/razorlou/...
Jun 10, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 20
S3 E19 - Shanna Christmas - Highly Intelligent is the name of her comedy special and you can find it on youtube. This episode and Shanna's special tackle tough subjects like a parent's dementia, her surprise brain tumor and sexual assault by a colleague and what happens when to you in your community when you press charges. Shanna is very vulnerable and very funny. Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Watch the comedy special - Shanna Christmas, Highly Intelligent: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Jun 03, 2025•58 min•Season 3Ep. 19
S3 E18 - Chris Phillips - Dish Soap Sommelier - is Tromedy about having his mouth washed out with dish soap for cursing as a child, which is just one form of abuse that escalated after his father was killed in the Edmond Post Office Shooting. Chris is a writer and budding comedian who shares how EMDR trauma therapy has helped him immensely and how watching and writing comedy is another way to redirect and transmute trauma triggers. Reach Out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ https://www.chrisphillips...
May 27, 2025•58 min•Season 3Ep. 18
S3 E17 - Ron Feingold - "Just a Prick" is a comedy show to raise awareness around PSA Prostate Blood Testing... Attend a comedy show and get your test done at the show. Ron is the Founder of Open Bar Comedy and shares how comedy has helped him through life's challenges including child abuse, the heartbreak of infidelity and most recently prostate cancer. Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Connect with Ron: https://www.ronfeingold.com/ Watch Open Bar Comedy Specials: https://www.openbarcomedy...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 17
S3 E16 - Janae Burris - Single Mom Comedy is hard. Janae wants to apologize to all the moms she judged in the past for not staying as active as an artist after they became a parent. She gets it now and is trying to navigate being a new single mom, comedian, actor and host of Film on the Rocks and other events while trying to find a good, reliable trustworthy nanny. Reach out to Nancy Norton or find upcoming shows here: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Reach out to Janae Burris: https://www.instagram....
May 06, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 16
S3 E15- Joe Huisman - Second Chance Comedy producer and budding comedian who shares how his recovery journey led to finding his passion and purpose to help chip away at the stigma of addiction. Reach Out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ https://www.secondchancecomedy.com/ https://www.sobrietyhouse.org/
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 15
S3 E14 - Rick Bryan - Resilience in this game of Risk - If anyone has resilience, it's comedian Rick Bryan who had to endure abuse at home as a young child and then in the prison system as an adolescent and a young adult. Somehow, with the help of humor Rick managed to not only survive, but to eventually thrive as an adult. Frankee B, Rick's wife of 20 years is in the studio and as we record this episode Frankee and Rick get news that their first grandchild is on the way. Nance has a bunch of ey...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 14
S3 E13- Von Sprecken - Mirror Mirror - How do we get out of the house of mirrors inside our own brain and break the cycle of perpetual shame? Von shares some practices about dealing with toxic shame and getting to the other side of self-love. Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Von Sprecken: https://www.instagram.com/getsprecked/ Here is a IG page of David Dayan Fisher who created the reel that Nance played that related to this episode: https://www.instagram.com/daviddayanfisher/ Nance and Vo...
Apr 15, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 13
S3 E12- Nance Rants about Toxic Shame- If you have toxic shame, know that you are not alone. As much therapy and recovery work as we have done, toxic shame can reappear time to time. How do you deal with Toxic Shame? Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ https://psychcentral.com/lib/what-is-toxic-shame
Apr 08, 2025•14 min•Season 3Ep. 12
S3 E11- Jacob Rupp & Miriam Moreno - April Fools! Jacob and Miriam celebrate their 3rd Anniversary today. April Fools Day 2025! They are both comedians and share a creative life and work together on a show called Goodnight Denver. Trigger warnings: We talk about miscarriages, abortions, STD's, Homophobia, Transphobia and a parent being murdered... AND believe it or not... while we touch in on the heaviness, ultimately... it's hilarious! That's TROMEDY! Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ ...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 11
S3 E10 - Sherri Harper - Thriving after Sociopath Abuse ! Sherri is back with a fun followup conversation since we last spoke with her 2 years ago on S1- E10 -"Those Red Flags are NOT a Parade!" It's so exciting to hear how she is thriving and at peace now. Sherri is happy in a 2 year relationship. Even though this feels like the most honest relationship she's ever been in, she learned her lesson from the sociopath ex and got a cohabitation agreement before moving in after 2 years of dating. Lot...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 10
S3 E9 - Vinnie Montez - First Responder Dark Humor - Trigger Warning: this episode deals with graphic details of vicarious traumas that police officers and first responders have to deal with... such as self inflicted gunshot wounds, death, child abuse and decomposing bodies and this is NOT for the faint at heart. Dark Humor is necessary to express vicarious trauma to reset and maintain resilience to do this difficult work. Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Connect with Vinni...
Mar 18, 2025•59 min•Season 3Ep. 9
S3 E8- Kate Rosato, RN - Ambivert - a lot of caring and a lot of go away! Nurses give and give and Kate shares what it takes to recharge and do self care so she can continue caring for others. Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Contact Kate about Reiki: kate.rosatoc@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/kate.cooper.52 Resources for this episode: What is Reiki? https://www.reiki.org/faqs/what-reiki Who is Dr. Jean Watson and what is Caritas? https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/jean-bio/caring-sc...
Mar 11, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 8
S3 E7 - Stone Wrote a Poem- a Slam Poet, a Nurse and a Comedian skip the bar... and this conversation happened. Stone is a "Silly Goose in Recovery," but secretly they long to be a shoebill stork, a beast of a bird that would never be catcalled. Stone shares about writing and performing poems drunk and how it is now being sober. Reach Out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Find links to Stone's poetry, Retrograde Review, photos and more: https://linktr.ee/stonetakesphotos https://www.instagram.com/sto...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 7
S3 E6 - Von Sprecken - Between Sense and Nonsense - Von just won a Moth Storytelling competition with a story about his brother's suicide and shares how the process of writing and performing that helped him process one of the most painful days of his life. Other topics discussed; Social Media and vulnerability, tickling the boundaries of what is helping vs harming and how speaking truth and being offended can both be weaponized. Reach Out- Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Von Sprecken: ...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 6
S3 E5 - Nathaniel Biswas Norton - Abandoning Issues! Nathaniel is Nancy Norton's favorite guest of all time.... Of course, he is Nancy's twenty year old son... so she may be slightly biased. Nathaniel Norton was adopted as an infant and shares adoption humor, childhood traumas and many strategies for coping. Reach out! https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 5
S3 E4 - Jessica Kafle- Sari, Not Sorry! Jessica is the host of the podcast "Relationship Roundtable" and she is speaking up and speaking out about a lot of things not talked about in Nepali Culture and Nepali families such as arranged marriages, child abuse, mental illness and suicide. Jessica manages to learn and grow and not be defined by the abuses that have happened to her, she is here to share how we all can learn and grow from our traumas and ends with some incredible tromedy! Reach out to...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 4
S3 E3 - Mandy Simonson - Laughing at Cancer and pretty much everything else too. Mandy is a former police officer who once left her gun in a Starbucks.. She is a power hitter comedian who kicked breast cancer to the curb, laughing all the way. Reach out to Nancy: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Follow Mandy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musings_ala_mandy/ https://www.instagram.com/latetothegamepod/ Resources: https://www.breastcancer.org/...
Jan 28, 2025•52 min
S3 E2 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - Integrating Science and the Sacred - Part 2, explores practical ways to cultivate joy, find compassion and peace. Packed with ideas and references. Make micro-choices and celebrate them and noticing the big and small miracles in everyday life and end of life. Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Links to some resources mentioned on the episode: The Adventure of Grief: Dr Geoff Warburton at TEDxBrighton https://youtu.be/juET61B1P98?si=5fjl0F9xy5fy...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 2
S3 E1 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - MSPH, HMDC, LOVE, JOY, POET, MAMA- Integrating Science, Art and the Sacred. Rohini Kanniganti is a board certified hospice and family medicine doctor who shares vulnerably about her own fears about waiting for possible cancer diagnosis, as well as being triggers rising up while awaiting an approval from the DEA and how feeling her fear fully as energy and as a part of love itself helps her embrace what comes. Reach out with questions, answers, to be a guest or cur...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 1
S2 E36 - Joshua Emerson - Bad Indian - is a Diné comedian who produced the Colorado Native Comedy Show and named his poignant documentary - Bad Indian after the song by the same name by Dead Pioneers. Joshua shares his beautiful journey of healing resentments with his mom as they bonded and laughed while going to college together and then how humor was integral to his upbringing and how it helped him manage his grief when she died. Help support the documentary - https://seedandspark.com/fund/bad...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 36
S2 E35 - Craig Jordan - Outside the Hundred Acre Wood - Craig is a budding comedian who does the most incredible Winnie the Pooh impression. In this free flowing conversation we go on a journey beyond the hundred acre wood into other dimensions, prisons and escapes. Craig has experienced it all and is using his gifts and experiences to help others and himself cope with life challenges. Learn about the nonprofit helping to change lives with music; https://achildssong.org/ Connect with Craig Jorda...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 35
S2 E34 - AJ Finney - Ketamine vs Keta-Mean AJ Finney is a comedian and podcaster who relays his vulnerable experiences with Ketamine treatments and even shares an audio recording of one of his scariest and most intense experiences ever that ironically lead to a great sense of peace. Finney also shares how humor came naturally to him as a child and how comedy has become the one thing that will not leave him and how important it is to him to leave his audience with a message about sharing joy. Thi...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 34
S2 E33 - Jose Macall - 911, What's Your Emergency? Jose is a comedian and a Paramedic dispatcher and a former 911 operator and for him, comedy is about defanging something intimidating. We worked together recently on Nurses Off the Charts and on this episode, we get to hear his brilliant comedy bit about immigration which is Tromedy at its best! Reach out to Jose Macall: https://www.instagram.com/comicfromthevoid Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/ Learn more about stressors o...
Dec 03, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 33
S2 E32- Heather Gray - From Pain to Purpose with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner the Renegade Health Boss Podcaster. Covering topics from relationships, Lyme Disease, Celiac, Mold allergies, brain inflammation and suicide attempts and coping with humor. Resources: Heather Gray's Websites and Podcast http://www.discoveringhealthfdn.com/ https://renegadehealthboss.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEh1w8d52wkr45ZOeAEWcOg Higher Alignment: https://higheralignment.com/ Reach out! ht...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 32
S2 E31 - James R Zingelman - Sibilance James recently found a letter his mother wrote to her attorney decades ago in case she disappeared and parts of the letter brought back a lot of childhood abuse memories that needed to be processed and transmuted with Tromedy. James is a comedian, hypnotist, keynote speaker and producer of Humor for Boomers: https://www.humorforboomers.com/ Some of the proceeds go to the Lewy Body Dementia Association resources: Learn about Lewy Body Dementia https://www.l...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 31
S2 E30 - Post-election hellp! Nance calls on friend Christie Buchele to share how we get out of the post-election woes with a little help from comedy. Dark Humor for Devastating Times Don't judge, Its Therapeutic! Reach out with feedback or if you'd like to be a guest. https://www.nancynorton.tv/ We share clips by these shows/and artists: The Mary Tyler Moore Show- Chuckles Bites the Dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o-xrio1ESA Give these comedians a follow on social media! Eddie Pepitone ht...
Nov 12, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 30
S2 E29 - Adira Rei - The Grand Awakening - Election Day! Uploading this episode on election day November 5th, 2024 as Psychiatrist Adira Rei discusses the loss of her parents, psychedelic therapy and ways to expand rather than constrict when we are wounded, fearful or grieving by allowing space and time for feelings and energies to move through us rather than flatten us... and raising our frequency for co-healing with others, Mother Earth and the Universe. No matter what, Keep Laughing! reach ou...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 29
